15th Alabama Infantry Regiment

The 15th Alabama Infantry Regiment was a Confederate States Army regiment which was active from 3 July 1861 to 9 April 1865 during the American Civil War. It was recruited from six counties in southeastern Alabama, and it fought mostly with Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, famously confronting the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment on Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg on 2 July 1863. Despite several ferocious assaults, the 15th Alabama was unable to dislodge the Union forces, and it was repelled by a desperate bayonet charge. It took part in the surrender at Appomattox in 1865.